Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today's Thursday, September 23, 2021.

I'm John Fatt, the editor of commentary magazine.

Noah Rothman is out today and tomorrow, with me as always executive editor Abe Ringwald

Haye.

Hi John.

And senior writer Christine Rosem.

Hi Christine.

Hi John.

So, uh, Occam's razor is the principle that the simplest and most direct explanation

for any given phenomenon is probably the correct one.

And so looking at the behavior of the Democratic Party over the last 48 hours, Occam's razor

would suggest that any effort to discern a Machiavellian strategy according to which

various Democrats have various complex long-term plans that are going to result in the passage

of everything that they want or even some of the things that they want does not pass the

smell test.

Occam's razor suggests that the chaos that we are seeing is in fact what is going on.

And Ed Morrissey, our friend at Hot Air, has a very good little piece today in which he

says looking at all this, Republican should get the popcorn ready because what we're seeing

here is the atomization and the dissolution of the Biden Democratic Party into a chaotic

miasma that is like, it may be more likely to get absolutely nothing than even part of

what they are seeking.

And it's an interesting point because if you're like, if you're a team supporter, if you

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